Low temperature impact toughness and fracture mechanism of cast QT400-18L ductile iron with diferent Ni additions

Different contents of Ni(0.3wt.%to 1.2wt.%)were added to the QT400-18L ductile iron to investigate the effect of Ni addition on the impact toughness of cast ductile irons at low temperatures.The impact toughnesses of the samples at room and low temperatures were tested.The microstructures and fractographs were observed.Results show that with the increase of Ni addition there is a general trend of refinement of the ferrite matrix while the nodule density shows no obvious change.When the Ni content is 0.7wt.%,the matrix structure is the refined ferrite with a very small fraction(about 2%)of pearlite near the eutectic cell boundaries.When the Ni content is further increased,the fraction of pearlite increases significantly and reaches more than 5%when 1.2wt.%Ni is added.The impact toughness at room temperature increases as the content of Ni increases from 0.3 wt.%to 0.7 wt.%,but decreases as the Ni content further increases to 1.2wt.%due to the increase of pearlite fraction.The maximum value of the impact work is 18.5 J at room temperature with 0.7wt.%Ni addition.The average value of the impact work is still more than 13 J even at-30℃.In addition,the fracture mechanism changes from ductile manner to brittleness as the testing temperature decreases from 20℃to-60℃.

Development of high strength heavy plate A517Q for offshore platform rack

This paper introduces the research and development of high strength A517Q developed by Baosteel for platform rack,with micro-alloying adding suitable quenching and tempering process,trial thickness of 127 - 178 mm high-strength A517Q.The trial plate crossing thickness has a uniform mechanical properties, yield strength greater than 700 MPa,tensile strength than 790 MPa,the Charpy impact than 90 J at -40℃, aging impact than 69 J,has high strength and excellent low temperature impact toughness,While the plate has excellent resistance to crack tearing ability of low-temperature,NDT is less than -45℃.The Developing heavy plates had been used for manufacturing racks of 200-foot jack-up offshore platform,the performance meeting the requirements of the ABS,CCS classification societies.

Effect of Rare Earth and Cooling Process on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of an Ultra-Cleaned X80 Pipeline Steel

In order to explore the eff ect of a small amount of rare earth addition in ultra-cleaned pipeline steel and the influence of the cooling process on the tensile and impact properties,three API X80 pipeline steels were fabricated by varying RE addition and the cooling process at the same time.Three microstructures with different features for a low C high Nb microalloyed high-strength pipeline steel and the corresponding mechanical properties were investigated.The results showed that even in the ultra-cleaned steel with O and S contents less than 10 ppm,the addition of RE would still cause an increase in the volume fraction of inclusions consisting of complicated RE oxysulfide and RE sulfide.More inclusions formed in the 112 ppm RE steel were harmful to the low temperature toughness,while few inclusions formed in the 47 ppm RE steel had almost no influence on the low temperature toughness.The two RE additions had no effect on strength of the steels.As the finishing cooling temperature was increased and the cooling rate was decreased within a certain range,the volume fractions of polygonal ferrite and quasi-polygonal ferrite as well as the number density and size of martensite–austenite islands were increased.Under such combined effect,the strength of the steels had almost no change.As the finishing cooling temperature was increased from 481 to 584℃and the cooling rate was reduced from 20 to 13℃/s,for the steel with 112 ppm addition of RE,there was an obvious decrease in the low temperature toughness.The reduced value(about 33 J)of the USE of steel consisted of two parts including the influence(about 18 J)of more inclusions formed due to 112 ppm addition of RE and the eff ect(about 15 J)of the lower high-angle grain boundaries.